In 2012, the BBC said: “About 70 countries throughout the world such as China and Iran have been known to use filters to cut their people off from the global web. Foreign news media, websites of political opponents, and pages flagging up human rights abuses are routinely blocked. Social media sites which allow groups to organize…

Today, we’re hearing more and more about the growing threat of nuclear war. And about World War Three, too. But, what about a so-called nuclear winter? Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, said: “The environment has been greatly damaged by the nuclear arms race. Models made by Russian and American scientists showed that…

Even as we have progressed as a species and our technology has become ever more advanced, stories of hauntings and communications from the dead have always followed us around. The only difference is that they seemed to have evolved along beside us, changing along with our world and seemingly working their way into our technology. Whereas…

Directed, produced and written by Lawrence Huntington, The Vulture is a very curious and downright weird movie that surfaced in 1967. It was produced by Homeric Films, Iliad Films, and Film Financial C. Ltd., and distributed by Paramount. The movie is one of a deeply strange kind. It’s also a movie that contains more than a…

During the latter part of the 1940s, a curious phenomenon was repeatedly seen in the skies over New Mexico. USA: strange, green, glowing balls of light which seemed to take a great deal of interest in the various military and defense establishments which existed in the area at the time. On May 25, 1950, Lieutenant Colonel…

Micro Air Vehicles are a class of extremely miniature unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that can be small enough to be held in the palm of a hand. Because of their size, MAV designers often try to mimic the flight of small birds or insects. For the first…

You stink! At times in every person’s life, it’s the worst insult that can be spat at another, especially if the target is a sweat-soaked enemy or member of the opposite team. Yet we will hug our equally sweat-soaked friends and teammates without apprehension or disgust. Researchers…

Ebola. Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). Marburg virus. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Nipah virus. The list of infectious diseases carried by bats is over one hundred. Yet it’s been a mystery why none of them seem to do any harm to the carriers themselves. A new…

Shrimp offer more benefits than just being a tasty snack dipped in cocktail sauce. Scientists have discovered that mantis shrimp (stomatopod crustacean) offer a new way of making polarizers, the optical filters used in camera lenses, sunglasses etc. Mantis shrimp use a unique language based on reflecting…

This week on our Plus+ exclusive episode we investigate new research on alleged “calls from the dead” from Callum Cooper before venturing into odd cases of coincidence and claims of a ‘Holographic Universe’. We also feature the latest in dopamine inducing headphones, robo-lawyers, and Kill Bill Monkeys. This…

The first part to this two-part series started “Even as cryptozoology, the search for undiscovered, mythical, or long thought to be extinct species, strives for acceptance and legitimacy with ever more scientific approaches and efforts to provide solid evidence, there has long been a specter that has…

Forteana, that is, the study of unusual bits of history and science in the tradition of Charles Hoy Fort, has had a long love affair with supposed “winged entities”. Such reports have been chronicled over the decades by such champions to the cause as the late John…

Nikola Tesla was a man of many shades. Brilliant inventor, conceptual physicist, and an engineer who had been nearly unparalleled in his time. His was a mind so bright that, as is often the case with such genius, his brilliance outshone his more practical sensibilities. Thus, in his final…

“Every picture tells a story”, as the old saying goes (and yes, as Rod Stewart sang in 1971). This is especially the case when it comes to alleged photographs of unidentified flying objects, where more often than not, the pictures leave much to be desired. However, in…

As most of us know by now, the CIA has indeed kept tabs on the UFO problem in the past, particularly during the 1950s and 60s. This is common knowledge for most these days, particularly thanks to the PR staff at the CIA, and what might be…

Ask Jorge Vago, the project scientist for the soon-to-be-launched ExoMars mission, to describe its purpose and this is what he says: Essentially our spacecraft is a giant nose in the sky. Scheduled to launch on March 14th from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the European Space Agency’s…

“They kept hooking hardware into him—decision-action boxes to let him boss other computers, bank on bank of additional memories, more banks of associational neural nets, another tubful of twelve-digit random numbers, a greatly augmented temporary memory. Human brain has around ten-to-the-tenth neurons. By third year Mike had…